U.S. evacuates Americans from Central African Republic

BANGUI, Central African Republic -- Americans were evacuated Sunday with coup forces reportedly in control of roads out of the Central African Republic capital.

Fears of new fighting ran high in the tense city as it ran short of food. A U.S. Air Force C-130 cargo plane carried out more than two dozen people -- U.S. Embassy workers, other Americans, and other foreign nationals, Lt. Col. Pat Barnes said at U.S. European Command in Stuttgart, Germany.